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Chemistry: Reducing Agent

By Janice VanCleave

In a chemical redox reaction, the reducing agent donates electrons to another element. Thus, a reducing agent is an element that causes another element to be reduced (to gain electrons). When a reducing agent loses its electrons, it is said to be oxidized. In a redox reaction, there has to be one element that loses […]

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